Vertica plugin for Gephi

This project provide a plugin for Gephi to load graphic data processed by Vertica database.

Gephi is a fast, simple and modular open-source tool for visualizing and manipulating large graphs. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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Installation

You can download the latest version of binary, or build it from the source code, than install it in Gephi.

Requirements

• Java 1.8

• [Optional] Apache Maven version 3.2.2 or later for build from source code.

• [Optional] Vertica JDBC driver in maven repository for build from source code.

  $ wget -O /tmp/vertica-jdbc-10.0.0-0.jar https://www.vertica.com/client_drivers/10.0.x/10.0.0-0/vertica-jdbc-10.0.0-0.jar
   
  $ mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.vertica -DartifactId=vertica-jdbc -Dversion=10.0.0-0 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true -Dfile=/tmp/vertica-jdbc-10.0.0-0.jar
  
  $ rm /tmp/vertica-jdbc-10.0.0-0.jar

[Optional] Build from source code

You will get binary under [target/] after correctly running following commands under top of souce code tree.

$ git clone https://github.com/dingqiangliu/vertica4gephi.git

$ cd vertica4gephi/

$ mvn clean package

$ ls -l target/*.nbm

Install this plugin

1. open Gephi application.
2. open menu "Tools - Plugins", choose table "Downloaded".
3. click button "Add Plugins", choose the binary file download or built from source code, and click "Ok" for flowing wizard.
4. open menu "File - Import Database - Edge List...", choose "Vertica Database" for driver, input properties and SQLs to connect and retrive nodes/edges.